Fedora 11: you might as well quit guys
I thought I’d give Fedora 11 a spin, cos they’ve made some changes to power management, and my battery has been screwy since Ubuntu Feisty.
But what a mistake!
I don’t expect any distro to recognise all my hardware, nor do I expect any to be exactly tailored to my tastes.
But I do expect every distro to at least:
- have installation docs that were not out of date two releases ago
- get the time right when pointed to an NTP server
- recognise my PS/2 trackpad
- not clobber the contents of /boot
- warn me before installing a non-backwards-compatible upgrade to Grub
It’ll be a very long time before I try Fedora again. :-(
Tags: fail, fedora, linux
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Jun 20th, 2009
June 21st, 2009 at 7:31 am
The installation guide is not two releases out of date. It was freshly updated for Fedora 11
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/
Rest of the problem, pointers to bug reports would be useful to know what you are talking about.
June 21st, 2009 at 8:21 am
Rahul, thankyou for your comment.
You should try installing from an NFS share then! The installion docs point you towards a diskboot image which doesn’t exist any more. They also say that the ISO doesn’t need to be extracted – but since Fedora 10, the diskboot image needs to be extracted from the ISO into another directory in the NFS share.
Google found the right answers to these questions which were first asked two years ago.